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The period during which investors are prohibited from selling their shares post-IPO is known as this.
What is a lock-up period?
This global financial crisis began in 2008 due to a collapse in the housing market.
What is the Great Recession?
Before co-founding their most successful venture, this founder tried to sell Groupon to Google for $6 billion—and got turned down.
Who is Travis Kalanick? (Uber)
Most likely to lose their MIC office card and need to be swiped in?
Who is Nathalie Bejjani?
This IRR-based measure reflects how quickly a PE fund returns capital and profits to investors.
What is DPI (Distributions to Paid-In Capital)?
In 1929, the U.S. stock market crash on this infamous day triggered the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
This founder started by selling cereal boxes labelled "Obama O’s" and “Cap’n McCain” to fund their early startup days at Y Combinator.
Who is Brian Chesky? (Airbnb)
Most likely to win a best dressed award in an office fashion show?
Who is Maham Malik?
This legal document governs the relationship between a PE fund and its investors.
What is a Limited Partnership Agreement (LPA)?
The collapse of this investment bank in 2008 is often cited as the tipping point of the financial crisis.
What is Lehman Brothers?
After being rejected by over 100 investors, this former Wall Street trader founded a fintech company and later sold it to Square.
Who is Vlad Tenev? (Robinhood)
Most likely to have a successful career in politics?
Who is Faris Al Mazrui?
This clause in a Limited Partnership Agreement allows LPs to opt out of specific investments due to ESG or moral grounds.
What is an exclusion clause?
This 1944 conference laid the foundation for the post-WWII global financial system.
What is the Bretton Woods Conference?
This founder of a communication platform originally built a gaming company that flopped—until they pivoted and launched one of the most successful SaaS tools of all time.
Who is Stewart Butterfield? (Slack)
Most like to appear on (and win) Love is Blind Habibi?
Who is Sameer Saifi?
In NAV-based lending to PE funds, this is the typical form of collateral pledged to lenders.
What are LP interests or unfunded capital commitments?
The 1997 crisis that started in Thailand and spread to other Asian economies is known as this.
What is the Asian Financial Crisis?
This Netscape co-founder helped launch the world’s first widely-used web browser at age 22.
Who is Marc Andreessen?
Most likely to upload their mind to a computer in an Elon Musk brainchild experiment?
Who is Faris Al Wahedi?